Good practices

Good practices in tackling child labour through education - Selected examples from the IPEC TACKLE Project

The objective of the TACKLE project was to contribute to the withdrawal of children engaged in child labour and to prevent further entry of children into employment by offering them alternative education and training opportunities and thereby contributing towards poverty reduction.

Instructional material | 10 October 2013
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The IPEC project “Tackling child labour through education” (TACKLE) was jointly launched by the European Commission (EC) and the ILO with the support of the Secretariat of the Africa, Caribbean and Pacific Group of States (ACP) in 2008 to fight child labour in 12 ACP countries (Angola, Fiji, Guyana, Jamaica, Kenya, Madagascar, Mali, Papua New Guinea, Sierra Leone, Sudan, South Sudan and Zambia). The objective of the TACKLE project was to contribute to the withdrawal of children engaged in child labour and to prevent further entry of children into employment by offering them alternative education and training opportunities and thereby contributing towards poverty reduction.

It is hoped that this collection of good practices serves as an inspiration for their replication and contributes to the work of practitioners and policy-makers on child labour worldwide. This collection is also intended to contribute to a knowledge base already available for linking action to eliminate child labour through ensuring access to education.

The good practices are presented under the four results of the project:
  • Result 1: Country level legal framework prepared or strengthened where already in existence
  • Result 2: Strengthened institutional capacity building leading to improved ability to formulate and implement child labour strategies
  • Result 3: Targeted actions to combat child labour designed and implemented
  • Result 4: Improved advocacy and dissemination of good practices to enhance the knowledge base and networks on child labour and education.
The good practices reflect the innovative aspects of the TACKLE project, which builds on ILO-IPEC’s tripartite social dialogue framework, including a focus on strengthening collaboration between Ministries of Education and Ministries of Labour and on policy enhancement, enforcement and coordination within the participating government institutions.